Spotlight Searching Entourage Not Working with Intel Macs

[Jeff]

I just got a Mac Mini Core Duo, which works great with Office and
Entourage 11.2.3, with one exception. It doesn't appear to support
Spotlight searching for Entourage. In fact, the Spotlight check box
doesn't even appear in the Preferences, although Sync Services does.
Is this because due to it being an Intel Mac? - JH

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

I just got a Mac Mini Core Duo, which works great with Office and
Entourage 11.2.3, with one exception. It doesn't appear to support
Spotlight searching for Entourage. In fact, the Spotlight check box
doesn't even appear in the Preferences, although Sync Services does.
Is this because due to it being an Intel Mac? - JH

Have you re-installed office & all the updates, or just dragged the office
installation across?

Specifically, you need to have this file in place to use spotlight indexing:
/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter/

This file will be put in place when you apply the latest update to an office
installation, but will be missing if you just drag-copied the installation
across from a previous machine.